The rivière du Petit Sault (''English: Small Sault river'') flows through the municipalities of Saint-Éloi (MRC

Les Basques Regional County Municipality Les Basques ''(the Basques)'' is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec, Canada. It is located on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River halfway between Rimouski and Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du ...

) and

L'Isle-Verte L'Isle-Verte () is a small municipality located along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Quebec, Canada. The name of the village refers to '' Île Vert ...

(MRC of

Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality Rivière-du-Loup is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. Its most important city is Rivière-du-Loup, which contains more than half of the population. Major industries include pulp and paper, other wo ...

), in the administrative region of

Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower Saint-Lawrence), is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlanti ...

, in

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, in Canada. The Petit Sault River is a tributary of the southeastern coast of the

St. Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting ...

at the

Geography

The Petit Sault river takes its source from agricultural streams located in the municipality of Saint-Éloi. This source is located at to the southeast of the southeast coast of the

estuary of Saint Lawrence The estuary of the Saint Lawrence in Quebec, Canada, is one of the largest esturaries in the world. Situation The estuary of the St. Lawrence River is located downstream of the St. Lawrence River and upstream of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It ...

, at to the southwest from a bend in the Trois Pistoles River and at northeast of the center of the village of Saint-Éloi . From its source, the Petits Saults river flows in an agricultural zone over according to the following segments: * west in Saint-Éloi, to chemin du 3e rang East; * north-west, up to the 2e rang East road; * north-west, to the limit of the municipality of

(Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte sector); * heading west, crossing

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, to route de la Station; * westward, collecting water from a stream (coming from the south), to Pettigrew Road; * northwesterly, crossing the

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railway line and route 132, to its confluence. The Petit Sault river flows into Anse Verte, on the Loups Marins flats, of the

, in the village of the municipality of

, facing the Île aux Pommes, located from the shore. This confluence is located northeast of the center of the village of

Toponymy

The toponym "rivière du Petit Sault" was made official on December 4, 1980, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.

References

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